Equip your team with skills and understanding through Indigenous Relations Training
Forum Community Relations helps organizations like yours move beyond good intentions
to informed, respectful action.
Missteps in Indigenous Engagement Cost Credibility, Time and Trust
Many organizations truly want to do better, but lack the knowledge and cultural understanding to engage meaningfully with Indigenous communities. Our Indigenous relations training, strategic consulting and leadership coaching gives your team the tools to navigate this space with respect, confidence and accountability.
We’ll help you
improve Indigenous relations in the
workplace.
The Indigenous Relations Training solution you've been looking for — in Calgary, across Alberta and Canada.
We can help you:
Improve Indigenous relations in your workplace
Implement Indigenous reconciliation strategies
Understand Indigenous protocols and wise practices
Navigate Indigenous relations conflicts
Develop Indigenous partnerships
Improve your Indigenous cultural understanding to help you build Indigenous community partnerships
Build leadership capability through cultural agility coaching
Led by experience.
Grounded in respectful relationships.
Forum Community Relations is a community of professionals dedicated to building bridges between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples through practical training, honest conversations, and strategic guidance. With decades of experience in corporate Indigenous relations across Canada and internationally, we support organizations in navigating this work with respect, clarity, and long-term impact.
Meet
Anne Harding
Forum Community Relations Owner
Anne Harding, MA, CP3, is a trusted leader in Indigenous engagement with over 20 years of experience supporting reconciliation and relationship-building across Canada.
Anne brings humility, depth, and dedication to every project—grounding Forum’s work in both professional excellence and authentic connection.
Trusted voices. Diverse perspectives. Shared purpose.
Forum Community Relations is proud to work alongside a network of respected Indigenous partners including First Nations, Métis, and Inuit professionals who co-lead our Indigenous cultural awareness training and consulting work.
Our team includes Elders, knowledge keepers, community leaders, educators, and engagement specialists—each bringing well-earned credibility, lived experience, and a deep understanding of the communities we serve.
Their expertise enriches every client engagement, ensuring the corporate reconciliation training and guidance we deliver is grounded, culturally informed, and responsive to real-world contexts.
Our Services
At Forum Community Relations, we provide leaders with the insight and support needed to build respectful, informed relationships with Indigenous communities. We partner with you to strategically address your organization’s most pressing challenges—from strengthening engagement practices to fostering inclusive, reconciliation-focused corporate cultures.
Through Indigenous relations training, consulting, and coaching services, we help ensure your people and your organization can lead with respect, confidence, and long-term impact.
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“When we know better, we do better.” We believe that the path to a future where all Canadians have the opportunity to benefit and prosper from this great country starts with education about the shared history among Indigenous and all Canadians.
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Our consulting services support organizations in designing Indigenous engagement strategies, developing internal policies, building reconciliation action plans, and navigating complex Indigenous relations challenges. Whether you're developing policy, planning engagement, or meeting reconciliation commitments, we offer tailored support to align your actions with your values.
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We offer cultural agility coaching for executive leaders and teams ready to deepen their Indigenous relations knowledge and apply it with confidence. Whether you’re navigating sensitive conversations, leading reconciliation initiatives, or growing cultural competency, we provide the guidance and accountability to support ongoing learning and leadership.
Learn more about Indigenous Relations Executive Coaching
From Our Clients
Welcome to the Forum Community Relations blog—a space where stories, insights, and strategies come together to highlight the power of meaningful engagement. Here, we share updates on our latest projects, spotlight the Indigenous partners and professionals we work with, and explore how authentic relationship-building can create lasting impact.
Whether you're a community leader, industry partner, or just curious about how collaboration drives change, this blog offers a behind-the-scenes look at our work and the values that guide us.
Trusted by Organizations Across Canada
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Acknowledgement
for the Land
I am grateful to live, work, raise my family and build relationships in the ancestral lands of the Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, and Amskapi Piikuni Nations of the Blackfoot Confederacy; the Tsuut’ina Nation; the Bearspaw, Chiniki, and Goodstoney Nations of the Iyarhe Nakoda; and the Battle River territory of the Otipemisiwak Métis Government.
I acknowledge and deeply appreciate the teachings and generosity that this land has given me and all peoples who make southern Alberta their home.
Learn more about our Land Acknowledgements 101 course